Anna Lembke

There's some people who say that I don't have a heart at all.

I asked Anna what drew her to the book.

I'm honestly not even sure I know because it didn't really matter when I was reading it.

That is to say like the plot and the characters mattered not at all.

I was reading it for the sex scenes.

You know, embarrassing to admit that, but it's true.

But I remember rationalizing it to myself as a modern day pride and prejudice.

But, you know, not really.

Don't think so.

It was about three in the morning on a weeknight, well past the hour I should have been sleeping so that I could be prepared for the next day to come.

And I got to a scene where the characters were using sadomasochistic sex toys.

And I just thought to myself, how did I get here?

What am I doing?

That's not anything that I'm into or even interested in.

It was a sort of like, where am I?

And how did this happen?

And I decided that's it.

This is something that's gone seriously right here.

I need to look at this problem.

And, you know, we want to be in a trance.